Renewable energy versus fossil fuels: the debate rages on, worldwide. At stake is nothing less than the protection of our planet from the ravages of climate change. But the costs involved in making th
¿Existen las casualidades? ¿Quién controla nuestros destinos? Explorando estos interrogantes, Carmen Posadas nos sumerge de manera magistral en un mundo de secretos y coincidencias q
En lo mas profundo de la mar profunda dormia Maria Celeste; habia sido, en lejanos tiempos, un barco pirata. Los peces de la region conocian a Maria Celeste y a todos les gustaba jugar con los restos
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Dopplegän
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Dopplegän
In the year 2000, Filipino Americans will be the largest Asian American group. This volume is the first detailed historical study of the major post-1965 immigration of Filipinos to the United States.
Muur es un personaje que vive extraviado en la obscuridad del lugar de los muertos, y ha aprendido a apoderarse de las personas como nica forma de esconderse y escapar de los peligros y sufrimientos d
Rafael Molinet Rojas, an inconspicuous Spaniard living in London, regrettably finds that there is nothing worth living for when his closest companion–his mother–dies. Hoping to make a dignified–and, a
A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire.Business is slow for Nestor
The magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, The Sacred Era is part post-apocalyptic world, part fa
The Targeted Social Assistance Program of Georgia is a last resort social program that is considered a best practice among proxy-means-tested (PMT) programs. It achieves high targeting accuracy for a
Integration of Functional Oxides with Semiconductors describes the basic physical principles of the oxide/semiconductor epitaxy and offers a view of the current state of the field. It shows how this t
The Results-Based Initiatives (RBI), launched in 2007, were a pioneering attempt to provide comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous evidence on effective interventions to foster the economic empowerment
Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific disciplines and a bewi
Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right and also smart development policy and business practice. No society can develop sustainably without giving men and women equal power to
Luisa, a renowned mystery writer, is beginning her new novel, a story of psychological suspense that centers on the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. The author has a close
